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<a href="B01C049.html"><font size=+2 color=red>49</font></a>
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<td class="v">49:1</td>
<td>And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.</td>
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<td class="v">49:2</td>
<td>Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.</td>
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<td class="v">49:3</td>
<td>Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:</td>
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<td class="v">49:4</td>
<td>Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.</td>
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<td class="v">49:5</td>
<td>Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.</td>
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<td class="v">49:6</td>
<td>O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.</td>
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<td class="v">49:7</td>
<td>Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.</td>
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<td class="v">49:8</td>
<td>Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.</td>
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<td class="v">49:9</td>
<td>Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?</td>
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<td class="v">49:10</td>
<td>The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.</td>
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<td class="v">49:11</td>
<td>Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:</td>
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<td class="v">49:12</td>
<td>His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.</td>
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<td class="v">49:13</td>
<td>Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.</td>
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<td class="v">49:14</td>
<td>Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:</td>
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<td class="v">49:15</td>
<td>And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.</td>
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<td class="v">49:16</td>
<td>Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.</td>
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<td class="v">49:17</td>
<td>Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.</td>
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<td class="v">49:18</td>
<td>I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">49:19</td>
<td>Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.</td>
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<td class="v">49:20</td>
<td>Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.</td>
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<td class="v">49:21</td>
<td>Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.</td>
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<td class="v">49:22</td>
<td>Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:</td>
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<td class="v">49:23</td>
<td>The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:</td>
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<td class="v">49:24</td>
<td>But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)</td>
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<td class="v">49:25</td>
<td>Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:</td>
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<td class="v">49:26</td>
<td>The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.</td>
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<td class="v">49:27</td>
<td>Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.</td>
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<td class="v">49:28</td>
<td>All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.</td>
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<td class="v">49:29</td>
<td>And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,</td>
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<td class="v">49:30</td>
<td>In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.</td>
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<td class="v">49:31</td>
<td>There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.</td>
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<td class="v">49:32</td>
<td>The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.</td>
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<td class="v">49:33</td>
<td>And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.</td>
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